FINAL GIRL explores the slasher flicks of the '70s and '80s...and all the other horror movies I feel like talking about, too. This is life on the EDGE, so beware yon spoilers!

Feb 9, 2011

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives

I have no idea why Blogger makes these two different sizes all the time (though you can click to embiggen both of them). Science is a mystery to me!

Also, man...some of these were tough to draw all stick-i-fied (Nikki looks like a ghost, and Sheriff Garris looks like he's being intimate relationed to death or something). It's kind of interesting- though the deaths get more and more outrageous as the series progresses, they also become far less explicit, usually happening very quickly or off-screen altogether- the camera will cut to Jason as he's stabbing someone or the stabbing happens just out of frame. Yes. Kind of interesting indeed.

8 comments:

I'd been looking forward to this installment to see how you'd handle Nikki's death. Nicely done.

Jason does look like after all the killin' he just needs a hug at the end there.

As for the deaths getting less explicit, I got two theories: either they were running on lower budgets and substituted creative kills for intricate, time-consuming and expensive gore effects; or some suit was mindful of the growing teen audience for the franchise and asked that they reduce the amount of on-camera gore out of some weird moral compromise. I lean toward the former theory.